Alex_Mexico
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So I was watching this "Gaming Mysteries" episode about the beta/earlier builds of Paper Mario and the different iterations and titles it got before getting the final one:
http://youtu.be/6xjeAFN-GFw
And I heard something I've never once came across before.
According to this Youtuber, the main reason Paper Mario wasn't called Super Mario RPG2 was because Square, still pissed off at Nintendo, wouldn't let them choose that name because they worked on the original SMRPG.
This blew my fucking mind!
First of all, how in the world can Square have the power to do that? Yes they made the original one but Nintendo owns the IP right?
And second, what the hell happened exactly? Do we even know? I always thought Square went to the PS1 because they just thought that Sony's console was better in line with what they were aiming for rather than Nintendo's obtuse cartridge based N64 (needless to say, a wise decision). But I always thought it was this simple. I never heard before they were "pissed" at Nintendo.
What the heck went wrong with the once cozy Square-Nintendo relationship?
http://youtu.be/6xjeAFN-GFw
And I heard something I've never once came across before.
According to this Youtuber, the main reason Paper Mario wasn't called Super Mario RPG2 was because Square, still pissed off at Nintendo, wouldn't let them choose that name because they worked on the original SMRPG.
This blew my fucking mind!
First of all, how in the world can Square have the power to do that? Yes they made the original one but Nintendo owns the IP right?
And second, what the hell happened exactly? Do we even know? I always thought Square went to the PS1 because they just thought that Sony's console was better in line with what they were aiming for rather than Nintendo's obtuse cartridge based N64 (needless to say, a wise decision). But I always thought it was this simple. I never heard before they were "pissed" at Nintendo.
What the heck went wrong with the once cozy Square-Nintendo relationship?